MexicanCoffee

10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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10 NOVEMBER 2004 -- TAPACHULA, CHIAPAS, MEX: Workers on a coffee plantation near Tapachula, Mexico, harvest coffee. Many coffee plantations in Chiapas rely on undocumented workers from Guatemala because their Mexican workers have either emigrated to the US or won't work for the wages plantation owners pay. The mountains of Chiapas, Mexico, make up some of the finest coffee producing land in Mexico. World coffee prices have been depressed by over production in Brazil and Vietnam and thousands of coffee farmers in Mexico and Guatemala have been forced to emigrate to the US as undocumented workers because of the crisis in the coffee industry. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ